11 The Go Lab Inventory of Online Labs
11.1 HY.P.A.T.I.A
11.1.1 Lab Profile
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1 Lab Title HY.P.A.T.I.A.
Hybrid Pupils’ Analysis Tool for Interactions in ATLAS
2 Lab
Description
HYPATIA is an event analysis tool for data collected by the ATLAS experiment of the LHC at CERN. Its goal is to allow high school and university students to visualize the complexity of the hadron hadron interactions through the graphical representation of ATLAS event data and interact with them in order to study different aspects of the fundamental building blocks of nature.
3 Keyword(s)
High energy, ATLAS, CERN, LHC, elementary particles, bozon, electron, muon, positron, proton, neutron, neutrino, accelerator, hadron, collision, momentum
4 Language(s)
EN (English) EL (Greek) FR (French)
5 Lab Category Data Set/Analysis Tools
6 Contributor(s)
Name of Contributor: Christine Kourkoumelis e mail: hkourkou@phys.uoa.gr
Organization: University of Athens/IASA Name of Contributor: Stelios Vourakis e mail: s.vourakis@gmail.com
Organization: University of Athens/IASA 7 Lifecycle
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8 Access Rights Free Access
9 License
N/A
10 Cost No
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11 Lab Owner(s)
Name of provider: Christine Kourkoumelis e mail: hkourkou@phys.uoa.gr
Organization: University of Athens, department of Physics / Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications (IASA)
12 Contact Details
Name of provider: Christine Kourkoumelis e mail: hkourkou@phys.uoa.gr
Organization: University of Athens, department of Physics / Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications (IASA)
13 Rights
Holder(s)
Name of provider: Christine Kourkoumelis e mail: hkourkou@phys.uoa.gr
Organization: University of Athens, department of Physics / Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications (IASA)
14 Status Online
15 Version Not applicable 16 Booking
Required No
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A Primary aims of the lab
HYPATIA aims to show students how real high energy physic research is done. It provides the students with real data and an environment that closely resembles what actual researchers use, to give them the opportunity to conduct their own analysis and “discover” new particles.
B
Depending on the experiment. One hour is typical.
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17 Big Ideas See Section 11.1.2
18 Subject Domain
Electricity and magnetism Electric charge – generally Electromagnetism – generally Energy
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Conservation and dissipation Internal Energy
Kinetic energy Potential energy Fields
Magnetic field Electric field
Electromagnetic field Angular velocity Forces and motion
Conservation of momentum Nuclear force
Collision
Tools for science Accelerators & beams Antimatter
Calorimeters High Energy Physics
Charged particle acceleration Dark matter
Higgs particle Invariant mass Leptons
QCD, jets & gluons Quarks & hadrons Standard model Supersymmetry
19 Grade Level
Upper Secondary Education (15 18 years old) Higher Education Bachelor
Higher Education Master 20 Educational
Objectives See Section 11.1.3
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Engaging in Scientific Reasoning
Manipulating Analysis
Making sense of the natural and physical world.
HYPATIA is designed so that the user can view real events as they are detected by the ATLAS experiment at CERN. The scenarios involving HYPATIA mimic the process used by actual researchers during their work on event analysis. Thus, the user can analyse real data using real methods and
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get a taste of what it feels like to be a particle physics researcher.
The user is given instructions on how to identify the various kinds of events that he will have to go through. Then every user (or pair) has to apply those criteria to the available events (which are different for every group of students) and identify then on his own. Then he has to study the histograms and reach a conclusion based on his analysis.
22 Inquiry Cycle
Difficulty Medium 24 Level of
Interaction High 25 Intended End
See Section 11.1.4
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Supporting Students with
Disabilities
No specific provisions
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No guidance tools and scaffold provided
B Context of use Flexible. Can be used by individual student or teacher as well as in an organized Masterclass.
C User manual
Yes
Manual Title:
Access URL: http://hypatia.iasa.gr/en/HYPATIA_Instructions_eng.pdf
D Description of a use case
Students can examine real Z boson decays and calculate their mass through the use of the built in invariant mass table. They can do the same with simulated Higgs boson decays. Then they create histograms that give them the invariant mass and width of the particle.
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28 Lab URL http://hypatia.iasa.gr
29 Technical Requirements
Operating System Windows
MacOS Linux
Additional Software Java
Supported Browsers Mozilla Firefox
Internet Explorer Google Chrome Safari
Opera 30 Technical
Format application/java
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A
Web client (link to client
app(s)
http://hypatia.iasa.gr
B APIs (server) N/A C Alternative
clients N/A D Registration
needed No
E Conditions of use
Free, bartering paying? Free
First in first served or access through booking? Concurrent use by all Do you want to grant Go Lab the right to make these conditions of use public?
Yes
Is the lab already referenced in an educational repository? (If yes, which?) Are there usage restrictions because of this? Can this repository be harvested?
How?
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http://portal.discoverthecosmos.eu F
Additional software/hard ware needed? No
G
Does the lab stores experimental
data (measurement s performed by
users, images collected,
etc.)?
No
H
Does the lab tracks user interactions?
No
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